Chapter 8: An Honorable liar, reason to kill the cat.
Summery: I may never know how it truly began, but I do know that I never truly had a choice in the events that led me here. I am in one piece now, and have unwillingly left my own world behind. That is all that matters, and all I need to know.
Disclaimer: I am in no way associated with any legal rights to one piece in any form, I do not own one piece or any part of the merchandising, gaming, manga, anime, characters, or anything of the sort. Please do not sue me as I do not have any money. The only things that I own from this fic are my own original characters.
A/N1: I KNOW ZORO IS ALSO CALLED ZOLO,
A/N2: I HAVE DECIDE TO LEAVE THE PAIRING UP TO THE READERS.
Please note that this chapter was edited on a massive scale one 11/5/09.
'thoughts'
"Words"
(inner Kaede)
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After leaving the sea-bar, it took us two full days to get to the island that Syrup Village was on, and by that time Choco had already grown three more inches. After measuring him several times, with Nami's help, I did the math and figured out that he grows about 1.5 inches a day. He was definitely going to be full grown by the time we reached Misty peak, and I was willing to bet almost anything that he and Carue were going to peck each other to death during Vivi's and Zoro's fight.
When Nami finally spotted the island, everyone perked up a bit, ready to do some walking around. Everyone was ready to go into town and get off of the cramped little boats. Even though Lil was the smallest member of the crew, she seemed to be the one having the most amount of difficulty with being confined to the small boats. As she was a cat, it was kind of obvious why, and the moment we made it onto the beach, everyone understood it.
"Land!" she shouted happily, jumping out of Nami's dinghy and onto the sandy shore, kissing the sand as though it was her long lost lover. "My precious! May we never be parted again!"
"Your cat... is weird." Nami said as we pulled the dinghies onto the shore, raising an eyebrow at Lil's actions.
"No, I think she's just really happy to be on land. Even as a Ctarl-Ctarl, I can't stand being in a giant puddle for so long." I explained, and it wasn't a lie either.
When I was just a regular girl, I loved being in water as much as possible. Swimming was the greatest thing in the world. I could just stay under water all day and watch all the colors caused by the sun light moving through the waves. It was so beautiful, but now...
Now I couldn't stand being on a boat for so long and I could barely stand the thought of swimming for longer then I had to. It had to be one of the trade offs of the fortune cookie. Lil had gotten the ability talk and understand English along with some other stuff as well, and I had gotten some of her cat traits in return. I got a sail, some claws, and a strong dislike for so much water.
"Huh? Well, I guess I never thought about it like that, being a cat girl must make being a pirate hard." Nami said, realizing for the first time that being part cat would mean that I wouldn't like water.
It was a well known fact that all cats hate water.
"Yeah, something like that." I replied, though that wasn't completely true.
The fact was, I wasn't sure how I really felt about being a pirate. On the one hand, it was kind of cool and fun, on the other hand, it was dangerous and it made it even harder to find a way home. And I am trying to find a way home.
"Ug!" we heard from behind us, causing us to turn around.
Turning around, me and the girls, plus Choco, were happy to see that Zoro and Luffy had finally reached the shore, having ended up falling behind thanks to Luffy's antics. He had been so happy when we had finally spotted the island that he had started jumping around in celebration, and as it was Luffy, his antics got the best of him. At one point, he jumped up as high as he could, but unfortunately, he came back down a few feet behind the boat...
Which forced Zoro to dive into the water and save him while Nami, Lil, Choco, and I went on to the island, knowing that Zoro could handle it.
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"There's no way we can make it to the Grandline in this condition!" Nami said sternly, getting everyone's attention and pointing out that the dinghies were way to small for us to go to the Grandline in them.
I had been wandering when this conversation was going to happen, if it was going to happen at all. It took Nami longer then I had expected to start complaining about our boats situations. We were definitely in need of a better boat, though I wasn't about to tell her about the Merry Go.... at least not yet anyway.
The fact that Nami had taken much longer to start complaining about our boating situation made me realize that I had probably set off a ripple effect when I got here. Everything was starting to change by two degrees, and that meant that it was probably going to start becoming more and more different as time went on.
The ripple effect, which I am a firm believer in, states that one change in any course of events can dramatically change the outcome. The events that first follows the change will only change by to degrees, or less then a full percent. This change continues, causing each event to become two degrees further off of the original path, adding up the last degree of change to the new degree of change. This means that the first difference is only two degrees off, the second difference is four, the third difference is six degrees off, and so on and so on.
This means that even though the events that had followed my appearance in this world had been mostly the same as they were in the anime, things were slowly going to become more and more different from the anime until the events become completely different.
The entire time Nami had been speaking, I had been off thinking about the fact that things were going to become more and more different from the anime, which meant that I wouldn't be able to predict what was going to happen forever. It wasn't until the red head, or rather orange head yelled at me that I even started to pay attention.
"Huh? Oh, sorry, what were you saying?" I asked dumbly, completely clueless about what we were talking about now.
I knew Nami was annoyed about our current boat situation, but apart from that, I had no idea what was going on as I no longer thought that the rules of the anime still applied.
"Dang it! Can't you pay attention? I was telling these to idiots that we needed to get a better boat, as well as some supplies." the pirate thief growled at me, wishing I would pay more attention to her when she spoke.
Then again, maybe some things would stay the same.
"Well, we might be able to get a ship in Syrup Village." I pointed out, trying to keep my face as straight as possible.
"Yeah, but there doesn't appear to be a shipyard anywhere on the map." she replied, looking over the map again, just to make absolutely sure that they didn't have a shipyard.
"Yeah, but you never know, something might happen." I said deviously, smirk at her when she narrowed her eyes at me.
"You know something, don't you?" she asked, sounding slightly annoyed.
She clearly wanted to know what I knew, but I wasn't about to give her that information for free, and which she already knew.
It was while Nami was still glaring at me that Lil popped out of my froggy bag with something in her paws. She and Choco (thought I couldn't really be sure that Choco had anything to do with it) had somehow managed to talk me into letting them search threw my froggy bag, cataloging everything they found. How they had managed talk me into it was beyond me as I was still fully convinced that there might be a monster of some kind in there, just waiting to kill us.
"Boss, I think I found your magic orb." She said, giving me a kitty smirk that told me, quit plainly, that she was being sarcastic.
My confused expression disappeared the moment she handed me the 'magic orb'.
It was a magic eight ball.
"Oh, I've been looking for that!" I lied, pretending to be happy to see it.
On some odd level, I was actually happy to see it, though I had never actually seen one before. The only reason why I was happy to see it was because it was something that was undeniably from my world.
"Oh magic eight ball, tell me what you see, is there an answer to Nami's question?" I said in a creepy chant kind of voice, shaking it as hard as I could before holding it up for everyone to see.
Nami and Luffy leaned in to see what it said. (Luffy had been watching us from his position on the helm of his dinghy, and Zoro had gone back to sleep as soon as Nami started talking to me.)
"Ask again later?!" Nami shouted angrily, glaring at both me and the magic eight ball.
"Yep, I guess that means the spirits are out on it. No fortune then, I guess." I said happily, putting the little black ball into my backpack, happy that I finally had something to play with.
"GAH! If you're a psychic then why do you need that thing? Can't you just tell me what you see yourself?" Nami demanded, still wanting her question answered.
"Nope, the magic eight ball has spoken." I said, laying down on my side and turning away from her. "And besides, I need the magic eight ball because it can see things that I can't. The eight stands for 'the eight spirits.'" I lied, coming up with the best excuse I could, which I was starting to get really good at.
I had never actually been a very good liar back in my own world. I could pull off a few small ones, like lying about a surprise birthday party or something, but I had never been able to get people to believe me anything else. Ever since I had stepped, or rather got dragged, into this world, I had slowly gotten better and better at lying when I needed to, and sometimes when I didn't.
Nami's glaring and my thoughts were interrupted by Luffy's shouts of joy.
"LAND! I SEE LAND!" he shouted, getting our attentions as he started jumping up and down in his dinghy.
Looking over at where he was pointing, everyone saw what he was shouting about. It was the island that Syrup Village was located on.
"Is it true?!" Lil inquired dramatically as she and Choco came out of my froggy bag, happy to hear that we had just spotted land. "It is! It's the promised land!"
'Guess that means she's tired of the ocean.' I thought, rolling my eyes at her antics, even though a small part of me felt the same way, which was kind of odd for me as I had always loved the ocean. 'I guess it has something to do with the cat in me.'
while everyone was staring out at the island, a sudden, and incredibly loud, splashing sound caught our attention, causing all of us to spin around to see what it was. It didn't take us long to see what the problem was. It was kind of hard not to notice.
Luffy was gone.
"Huh?! What happened?!" I exclaimed, running to the back of Nami's dinghy and looking over the edge of it, wandering where the idiot had gone, though a little voice in the back of my head was calling me an idiot for not being able to figure it out.
"What the hell do you think happened?! The idiot wouldn't stop jumping around and he fell off the boat!" Zoro shouted angrily, diving over the back of the dinghy and into the water, going after the idiotic rubber man.
Nami and I simply stared at the water for a few seconds, both of us thinking that Luffy was an idiot.
"Shouldn't we help them?" I asked in a bored tone, wandering if we would be better of if we just let him drown.
"Nah, Zoro can handle it, let's just head to shore." Nami replied, waving off my question while raising the sail again.
"Yeah," Lil said, mimicking Nami's off handed wave. "let's just get out of the puddle."
"Kweh Kweh." Choco added, using one of his wings to do the same waving motion that Nami and Lil had done.
'Great, even Choco's mimicking her now.' I thought, hoping that Nami and Lil weren't bad influences on the little chocobo.
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"Why the hell did you leave us back there?!" Zoro demanded as his and Luffy's dinghy drifted onto the sandy shore.
'Yep, he's going to kill us.' I thought, seeing the large vain in his forehead throbbing menacingly.
"Hey, you made it here OK, didn't you?" Nami pointed out, waving him off as though it was no big deal.
"That's not the point!" He growled angrily, just as pellets started flying through the air at us, coming from some bushes on top of the cliffs in front of the beach.
"Ah!" Lil shouted as she was nearly hit by a bunch of metal balls, which she only managed to get away from by jumping onto the back of Zoro's shirt, clinging to it for dear life.
While Zoro continued to deflect the flying metal balls with his sword, Nami and I (along with Choco) hid behind her dinghy, hoping that we wouldn't get hit. They might just be little metal balls that were being shot by a slingshot, but that didn't stop them from hurting like hell.
While Lil, Nami, Choco, and I were hiding, Luffy simply started dong what could only be described as the 'Don't get your foot shot' dance. He kept moving his feet from spot to spot, trying to keep them from getting shout. Looking at him, I couldn't help but realize how pointless his attempt to dodge the pellets was.
Even if he got hit, it wasn't like it would actually hurt him anyway.
It took a while, but when the metal pellets finally stopped flying out at us, Nami and I, along with Choco, got out from behind the dinghy, fully intent on finding out what the hell was going on, though I actually already knew.
When we stepped out from behind the dinghy we found around twenty pirate flags were being raised in the bushes all along the cliff top. Once all of the flags were up, a man with a log nose popped out of one of the bushes, a man I recognized instantly.
"That's so cool!" Luffy shouted in amazement, waving his arms around like an idiot, way to impressed with what Usopp and the three kids that were still hiding had done.
"Is this where we're supposed to be impressed?" Nami asked flatly, making it clearly that she didn't find it at all amusing.
She clearly didn't think that three kids holding up a bunch of pirate flags while hiding in a some bushes was all that impressive.
"Yeah, if that's impressive, that I'm a beetle girl." I said, not pointing out the flags Usopp had clearly raised with the help of carrot, onion, and pepper, who's parents should have been shot for naming them after vegetables.
Clearly not hearing a thing we said, or choosing to simply ignore it, Usopp started laughing, drawing everyone's attention to him instantly.
"Hahaha! I am Usopp! Leader of the invincible group of pirates that reign over this island! You stand before a living legend, the most revered pirate that ever lived!" He said loudly, making up one of his famous lies like I knew he would. "I am the great captain Usopp! Surely you know that attacking this village where my army of 80,000 blood thirsty pirates lives would be suicide!"
"Uhuh, yeah. Sure." I said sarcastically, rolling my eyes and laying down in the sand, ignoring him completely. "I don't have to look into the future to know what's gonna happen next. When the three kids in the bushes are done playing games, let me know." I said, rolling over onto my other side and facing away from them, smiling when I heard them jump up in horror.
"Ah! He knew!"
My smile vanished almost instantly at their shouts, which caused my fellow straw hat pirates to pale, fearing that I was about to do something gruesome to the three brats for calling me a 'he'.
Which I did.
At the mention of the fact that I look like a boy, I slowly turned my head in a vary 'Chucky: child's play' kind of way, glaring at them with half of my face hidden in showdown while my eyes turned into bright red lights.
I think one of them peed in his pants.
"What did you just call me?" I asked quietly, my power of mass destruction reigning down on them as I slowly stood up and grabbed my mallet. "I'M NOT A HE, DAMN IT!" I shouted, whacking the three of them over the head with my normal mallet at a speed that no human-being could ever even dream of achieving.
"Ah! Carrot! Onion! Pepper! What did you do to them?!" He yelled in horror when I had finally finished beating the crap out of them.
I had actually gone easy on them, not wanting to hurt them to badly as they were just a bunch of kids. Thy will definitely be able to walk again once the pain finally stops... I think.
"Nothing, don't worry. I didn't hurt them that bad, they just got lumps on their heads for calling me a guy." I said, jumping down back down off of the cliff and joining the others as the three kids got up and took off running, scared that I would start beating them again if they stayed around to long.
"Hey! Where are you guys going?! COME BACK!" Usopp shouted after them, clearly afraid of the idea of taking on a bunch of actual pirates on his own.
"A pirate using a slingshot and has kids for lackeys? Well now I've seen it all." Nami said, picking up one of the metal pellets and looking at it, only to remember what I said about a guy with a long nose joining our crew. "Wait, Long nose? Lies a lot? Huh?! He's our-?!" She started, only to be cut off as I wrapped my tail around her mouth, using it as a gag.
Huh, so there is a use for that damn thing after all.
Normally, I probably would have let her go ahead and point out what I knew because it probably wasn't ever going to be that big of a deal, but in this case, I was afraid that were might not get Usopp if she said to much, and I really didn't want that to happen. He might be a big chicken most of the time, but that didn't mean I didn't want him on the crew.
Once I was sure that Nami understood that I didn't want her to saying anything about what I had told her, I unwrapped my tail from her mouth and let her go. She didn't seem at all happy about me stopping her, but seemed to decide to let it go, though I had a feeling that if it hadn't been for Luffy's shouts distracting her, she probably would have killed me.
"Hahaha! That's pretty cool!" Luffy laugh excitedly, completely oblivious to everything that had just happened behind him.
"HAY! Shut your mouth or I'll shut it for you! I'm a proud man and I wont stand for being laughed at!" Usopp shouted angrily, readying his slingshot again, clearly threatening to shoot us with it. "This is your last warning! If you don't leave now you'll see why they call me Proud Usopp and not pushover Usopp!"
Everyone just sat their staring at him, clearly not very impressed by his threats at all. When no one said anything or made a move to leave he simply continued speaking, getting angrier at the fact that we seemed to be ignoring, though his shaking legs made it clear that he was more terrified then angry.
"Is that clear?! You've already seen for yourselves how good I am with a slingshot, so you already know that I can rival anyone carrying a pistol!" he shouted, trying to scare us off, though it didn't work at all.
Hearing the threat Usopp was issuing, Luffy stepped forward, fully intent on scaring the crap out of Usopp and using Yasopp's words to do it. At least, that's my opinion of why he did it. He probably actually did it just because he though it was funny, but yeah... I just thought it was funny to scare the crap out of him.
"Now that you've drawn your pistol, are you willing," Luffy started quietly, pausing to look up at Usopp so that his face was half covered by his straw hat. "to use it?"
"Huh?" Usopp said with fear in his voice, his shaking going up a notch as he listened to what Luffy had to say.
"Guns aren't for threats, they're for action." Luffy continued, the corners of his lips twitching slightly as he continued speaking. "Are you willing to risk your life?"
Zoro hitched his sword out of it's sheath and turned to smirk at Usopp threateningly, clearly understanding what Luffy was doing thanks to the story that Luffy had told us earlier about shanks and his pirate crew.
"I can assure you," the moss haired swordsman said menacingly, joining in on the 'scare the crap out of Yasopp's kid' thing and sending Usopp a deadly glance. "we're real pirates. Consider your next move very carefully."
Poor Usopp, I kind of felt bad for him. If I was in his position, I probably would have fainted or peed my pants after being looked at like that. Then again, I might have beaten the crap out of Zoro with my mallet instead, but luckily, we'll never know.
No one glares at me like that and lives to tell about it... OK, so that's not really true. I'm actually half chicken, but can you really blame me?
At Zoro's death glare, Usopp's fear finally seemed to get the best of him because he promptly dropped the metal pellet on the ground and sank to his knees.
"Ug... Real pirates definitely have a lot more punch behind their words because they have what it takes to back them up." He whispered in despair and admiration. "That's so cool." he finished, the admiration in his voice evident.
Luffy and Zoro just watched him for a minute before falling over, clutching their sides, and laughing, clearly thinking that it was hilarious. I couldn't really disagree with them as I had fallen over laughing as well, but what did you expect? When you think about it, it's hilarious.
After a minute of laughing, Luffy finally straightened up, looked Usopp in the eyes, and spoke.
"I stole that." he said laughingly, walking over to the cliff and looking straight at the long nosed liar.
"Huh?" Usopp asked in a confused voice, not sure if he understood what Luffy was talking about.
"I stole those words from red haired shanks, a pirate I know." the rubber man said, grinning from ear to ear like an idiot, just like always.
"What?! You know red haired shanks?! Wait, then you guys really are pirates! Wait, you've got to be lying! Do you really know him?" Usopp ask in a shocked voice, unable to believe his ears.
"Yep, that's right! I know your dad to, his name's Yasopp." Luffy continued, still grinning like an idiot like always.
Just as I knew he would, Usopp choose that moment to fall off of the cliff and tumbled down to Luffy's feet, making it very clear that he really needed to learn where to stand and where not to. Once his daze wore off, he stood up and looked at Luffy with eyes so big that they were in danger of popping out of his head, either that or they were in danger of being mistaken for Luffy's.
"That's right, my old man's name is Yasopp." he said, unable to believe that the pirates in front of him knew his father. "But, how in the world do you know him?"
He hadn't heard from his father or any of his friends since he was a kid, and it was extremely surprising to have any of his friends suddenly show up out of nowhere. Once he got over his surprise and Luffy had explained everything a little bit, Usopp took us to a restaurant in Syrup Village, claiming he was going to treat us to whatever we want.
Knowing he was lying like always, I quickly called him out on it, not wanting to have to pay for anyone's meals. Choco was a quickly growing baby bird and I had a feeling that feeding him was going to be really expensive for awhile, at least until he was an adult. Then again, he could end up being that expensive for the rest of his life.
I also had another reason to want to save my money. I had decided that I was going to have to buy a note book to write down everything I could remember about one piece from watching the anime as I already knew that time wasn't exactly my best friend. The longer I went without anything, the more details I forgot, and as every little thing that I could remember might help me out, writing it down might be a smart idea.
I knew I wasn't going to just suddenly forget because of some amnesia or something stupid like that, which I had read about in a lot of different 'fan falls into one piece fanfics', but I was definitely going to end up forgetting some of the information eventually.
For instance, I could remember all the earlier episodes perfectly because they were the ones I had watched about a million times each, but the later episodes, I had only seen most of the episodes past Skypiea once or twice and couldn't remember that much about them at all. There were almost four hundred episodes when I left and I had only seen the first half of them more then once. I could remember the main events of the later episodes, but not the junk in between.
Some episodes even happened in the same day. The CP9 ark, after they got to Judicial isl, all happened in the span of just 8-9 hours. Do you have any idea how many episodes that was? There was no way I would be able to remember it all unless I wrote down everything I could think of. That was the only way I was going to be able to make sure that we still got all the crew members that we were supposed to get.
Plus, it would also give me a way to remind myself to change stuff that I really didn't want to happen.
The first thing that I wanted to change was part of the CP9 ark. I really didn't want to see the mermaid conductor lady naked. She might be a mermaid, but seeing her naked would probably scar me for life, so avoiding it was probably best.
Plus, being a cat person, I also didn't want to get wet and nearly drawn in a small hallway either. That would really suck. Because of that, I was determined to build my own little submarine, which I would keep in my froggy bag. It wouldn't bee a very good submarine because my engineering book didn't actually have that much in it about subs. It did have a little in it about them, but not much. (and just so you know, the pages were now in that funky 'dried after getting soaked' state, but they were still readable, and the blueprints for engines and stuff were still good)
The second thing I didn't want to happen was the whole 'get my memories stolen' thing. I wasn't to keen on the idea of a magical seahorse stealing my memories, even if they were of a world I would probably never see again. They were mine and no one was going to take them away from me.
Once we got to the restaurant, everyone sat down, ordered, and started talking, with the main topic of course being about Usopp's father.
"Hold on, does my old man really know Shanks?" Usopp asked excitedly, happy to finally be hearing about his father after so many years.
He was so excited about hearing about his dad that he actually manage to eat his food just as fast as Luffy ate his, which surprise the hell out of me. I had always believed that only Luffy or a vacuum cleaner could be that fast.
Obviously, I was wrong.
"Know him? When I met your dad he was part of Shank's crew, so they were probably pretty good friends." Luffy said happily, grinning from ear to ear as he thought about everything that happened back when he met Shanks and his crew.
"I can't believe it." Usopp replied excitedly, sounding incredibly proud of his father for fallowing his dream. "My old man, sailing the high seas with famous pirates!"
"I haven't heard from him in a while, but I bet he's still with him." Luffy said, taking an apple off of the table and eating it in one bite. "He was a heck of a sharpshooter, I'd keep him on my crew."
Luffy's eyes seemed to glaze over for a second, taking on the appearance of those that were seeing the past again. He was definitely reminiscing, something that I was glad I couldn't see. I had always hated the episodes that showed everyone's childhood because they tended to have really crappy endings.
Case in point, Robin's childhood ended with everyone she ever knew getting killed in a Buster call, Nami's childhood ended with her mother being killed by Arlong, who then enslaving her and held her fellow villagers hostage, and Franky's childhood ended with the man he considered his father being killed and him getting hit by a train.
None of their childhoods had had very happy endings, and I was glad that I didn't have to see them, though the knowledge of them alone made me want to kick the marine's, along with Arlong's, ass.
"He used to go on and on about his son. I think I heard enough about you to make my ears bleed." Luffy said, coming out of his trance and continuing on with the conversation. "And let me tell you, he was a great pirate."
"Ya, really? I sure am proud of my old man, he leaped into a pirate's life on the endless seas." The long nosed sniper said, glancing at a picture of a pirate ship that was hanging on the wall next to him. "He chose a life of real adventure."
It was at that point that Nami realized that Usopp was probably one of the only people in town that could help us find a place where we could get a ship, though I doubted she was really thinking it through as there wasn't a port in town and Usopp didn't exactly look like he could help us very much.
"Hey, maybe you can help us?" She asked, catching his attention. "Do you know anyone that could provide us with a decent ship?"
"Well, it's a pretty small village." He said, looking away from her and keeping his face straight, which made it really hard to believe him. "Sorry, but I don't think we'll be able to help you."
"So that means there is someone in this village that can, but you just don't want to tell us who." Lil said, causing everyone in the restaurant to freeze in horror and stare at us, including Usopp.
"IT CAN TALK?!" they all shouted in unison, unable to believe what they had just heard come out of Lil's little kitty mouth.
"Yes, it can talk." I said, closing Usopp's mouth to keep it out of my food.
Why the hell did I have to be the one to sit between him and Luffy? Luffy always tried to eat my food, and Usopp was shock prone, which meant that his jaw kept getting dangerously close to my food. It was really annoying.
"Hey!" Luffy said, once again completely oblivious to what was going on around him as he stared out the window. "What about that big house over there? Could they help us?"
Usopp seemed to almost have a heart attack at Luffy's words. In his shock and horror at Luffy pointing out the house, he jumped out of his seat and pointed at us, clearly about to tell us something.
"You stay away from there!" He said in an authoritative voice, glaring down at us.
After a second of glaring at us, his expression change. He was clearly embarrassed at what he had just done, but he also clearly wanted us to stay away from the large mansion on the hill, which meant that it was definitely Kaya's.
"Uh? Sorry," He said nervously, heading for the the door and leaving us to pay his bill. "I just remembered something that I really have to do, see you guys later!"
Everyone simply sat there staring after him for a few minutes before final turning back to our food.
"Well, that was weird." Lil said, taking another bite of her food while watching as Choco tried to take a bite of it too.
"Why was he in such a hurry to get out of here?" Nami asked, wandering why he had been acting so weird.
All of us simply shrugged and went back to our food, not really knowing the answer. OK, so I knew that answer, but it wasn't like I was going to tell her what it was. About six or seven minutes after Usopp left and the rest of us had turned back to our food, Onion, Carrot, and Pepper came running in to the restaurant in search of Usopp, all holding wooden swords and trying to rescue him from the big bad pirates.
"The Usopp pirates have arrived!" They shouted in unison, causing several people to look up at them in surprise, though most of them went back to their meals when they saw who it was.
"Who are these kids?" Nami asked, leaning her head out of the booth to look over at them.
"Just the kids from before, the ones I beat the crap out of on the cliff." I said, grabbing one of Luffy's drumsticks and taking a large bite of it, wanting to prepare for the teasing session that was about to start.
Once the kids realize that Usopp wasn't there, the all paled, clearly thinking that the 'horrible pirates' did away with him.
"Captain Usopp is gone..." Carrot said, lowering his wooden sword when he realized Usopp wasn't there, fearing that we might have killed them.
"Did they...?" Onion asked in a fearful voice, worry evident on his face.
All three of them ran over and stood in front of our table, determined to get some answers out of us.
"Fess up you filthy pirates! What did you do with our captain Usopp?!" Pepper demanded, only to freeze when they saw that we were all eating meat.
"Hm.., that meat sure was good!" Luffy said happily, rubbing at his now round stomach which was so large that it could have been filled with a whole person, causing the kids to stare at him in horror.
"HUH?!" the all shouted in horror, gathering closely together in an attempt to protect themselves, scared that we might eat them too.
"These pirates are cannibals-\!" Carrot said fearfully, looking as though he was about to pee in his pants.
Everyone at the table started getting into the teasing, trying no to crack up laughing while still playing along with it. The looks on their faces were so funny that it made it incredibly hard to not fall over laughing, but each of us managed it.
"What have you done, you savages?!" Pepper demanded as he and his brothers started backing away slightly, shaking in fear.
"If you're looking for your captain," Zoro said menacingly, purposefully making himself look as evil and murderous as possible before continuing. "We ate him."
"AH!" the three kids shouted, looking at the closest person to them, which just happened to be Nami, just like in the anime. "Cannibals!"
"That's right!" I said darkly, continuing on with it and nearly making them pee their pants when I picked Pepper up and wrapped my arms around him, smiling evilly over his head at his friends when he struggled.
"AH!" The other two yelled, falling over onto the floor and causing everyone in the restaurant to start laughing.
Everyone in the restaurant had been listening to us the whole time and ended up rolling on the floor laughing, unable to control themselves when they saw the three kids faces, especially Pepper's. When they saw that everyone was laughing, the three kids started looking around in confusion, clearly wandering what the heck was going on and why everyone was laughing about Usopp getting eaten.
Once everyone had calmed down enough and had gone back to their meals, I let Pepper go, stood up, and payed for my meal, along with the other straw hat pirates.
Once we had paid for our food and were outside, we explained everything to the kids. They were very happy to find out that their captain was very much alive and that we hadn't eaten him.
"So the captain ran off somewhere?" Onion asked once we were all done laughing.
Now that it was over, they thought it was pretty funny too.
"Yeah, we aren't sure where he went, but we were kind of wandering were he was." Nami said, still wanting to know why Usopp had ran off like that.
"Well, he probably ran off to see Kaya." Pepper said, remembering that Usopp always headed to her place around the same time every day.
"Yeah, that's where he usually goes around this time of day at least." Carrot added, trying to remember a single day when Usopp hadn't gone to see Kaya.
He couldn't.
"Hey, you want us to take you there?" Onion asked, wandering if what we wanted to talk to his captain about was important or not.
"Yeah, sounds great!" Luffy said excitedly, smiling at the three kids as they started jumping around happily.
They kids were definitely cute, and I was already starting to hate Jango for trying to kill them, even if it hadn't even happened yet.
Thinking about it for a second, I decided that I didn't really want to go along with them at the moment, because I really didn't want to see the Kuro argument.
"You guys go on ahead, I think I'm going to get some shopping done instead." I told them, saying the first thing that popped into my head.
I really didn't want to see the bastard butler yet. I was afraid that I might try to strangle him for all the shit he was going to put everyone through, and if I did that, he might kill me, and that would suck. He was way to strong for me to actually take on and I knew full well that he would just hack me up into little pieces if I tried to hurt him.
So shopping was probably safer.
"Does that mean you're finally going to give yourself a makeover?" Lil asked hopefully while Choco continued eating the last of his food, causing Nami's ears to twitch slightly, though I wasn't actually able to see it as she was behind me.
One of these days, I'm really going to have to kill that cat.
"Huh?" I stuttered in horror, looking at her with fear in my eyes while she simply smirked at me from my shoulder.
"Makeover?"
Hearing the voice coming from right behind me, I froze in horror. It wasn't Lil that had said it, it was Nami and she had said it with WAY to much interest.
Yep, definitely going to have to kill the cat.
Glancing over at the orange haired pirate thief, a sense of dread suddenly washed over me when I saw the look in her eyes. Her eyes themselves had turned into giant plus like stars, a sign that could only mean impending doom for me as well as nightmares for the rest of my life. Every girl within thirty feet, as well as some of the guys, shivered in horror, all of them feeling the same thing that I was.
Something evil was coming, and it was scaring the shit out of us all.
"Huh? Makeover? No, no, hahaha." I said in a nervous voice, laughing nervously as I slowly backed away from her, though I already knew that it was to late.
Lil had said the magic word and Nami was going to have her fun weather I liked it or not.
"No one said anything about a makeover, I just need to buy some other stuff!" I said, trying as hard as I could to come up with something that would get her to change her mind about the horrors she was going to inflict upon me. "You know, I'm not only a witch, I'm also an engineer! I have lots of stuff I want to build and I need to buy some stuff for it!"
Seeing that it wasn't working, I turned around as fast as I could and tried to run, only to find out that Nami was way to fast for me to get away from. In the blink of an eye, she somehow managed to hook her arm in my and started dragging me off towards what could only be described as hell on earth.
"A makeover? Well why didn't you say so! This town is kind of small and I have a feeling there isn't much variety or very good fashion here, but I'm sure I can find you something that will make you look great!" Nami said happily, completely ignoring my struggles as she dragged me off kicking and screaming.
"NO! STOP! HELP! MOMMY!" I screamed as I was dragged off and shoved into the nearest shop, trying to claw my way out it, only to have Nami shove me back in with her foot.
MUST KILL THAT CAT!
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